How do you clean your attached spa

[Ourad]

Just curious, for all of You with Gunite spas and pool robots, how do you clean them? Manual vac, battery vacuum, a broom, net, and time? Mine is a pain in the rear to keep clean even using a battery vacuum. Granted mine is from the 90’s and has no spillover to send most stuff into the pool, but curious what others have found works!

 

[HermanTX]

Does your spa flow to your pool at all? You mention that you do not have a spillover but you also say it is an "attached" spa.
Weekly I circulate the spa only and brush it. This picks up the small particles via the bottom drain and captured by the filter. I simply use a net to pick up surface debris, even when on spillover mode. The spillover mode ensures the water in the spa has chlorine in it but I separately clean the spa as noted on a weekly basis.

 

[homegameroom]

My spa plumbing is attached to the pool pump with valves, so, when I'm lazy, I will turn the main pool pump on but have the water come from the main drain in the spa. I'll brush any visible dirt towards the drain, then reposition the valves and voila! the spa fills up and I have a clean spa with "new" filtered water.

 

[Ourad]

My spa is some old school design where it is connected to the pool by two equalizer lines about 2 or 3 feet down. I guess they just plugged them back in the day when they wanted to run the spa by itself. I have two crepe myrtles nearby that dump endless amounts of stuff into it. It has its own skimmer, which catches some debris, but a lot ends up on the floor that I end up having to brush or vacuum up. Pool came with an IFCS, but it basically just pushes everything to one area in the bottom of the spa, which still requires manual removal. Wall jets do a pretty good job getting the seats cleared off, but theres not much circulation on the floor to kick things up unfortunately.

Sounds like it's just going to be good old manual labor.

 

[mknauss]

Robot. Drop it in for about twenty minutes and does a decent job. Brush or move around any dirt on the steps it can not get to and it will suck it up.

 

[orthopod]

Watch putting your robot in! Mine got stuck on the rollover edge of the bench and ground down the pebble! If you do it watch the robot. I walked away....and came back to this!

 

[mknauss]

What kind of robot do you have?

Ours is a fiberglass pool. And the robot never gets stuck on anything in our pool.

 

[setsailsoon]

When ours gets dirt and sand accumulations I just run the manual pool vac line over and suck it out. Takes a little bit of a quick move to get the hose up to the spa but works pretty well... never tried Marty's robot idea but I will. Seems way easier than messing with the hose, especially since I've got it on a smart plug so I can turn on with my phone.

Chris